The analysis of sound and sonic devices in poetry is the focus of much poetic scholarship, and poetry scholars are becoming increasingly interested in the role that computation might play in their research. Since the nature of such sonic analysis is unique, the associated tasks are not supported by standard text analysis techniques. We introduce a formalism for analyzing sonic devices in poetry...

The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic metaphors are processed differently than literal speech, while relatively conventionalized and contextually salient metaphors are processed more like literal speech. This conflicts with the view of “cognitive linguists” like Georg...

This paper describes the recent development of HMM-based expressive speech synthesis. Although the expressive speech includes a wide variety of expressions such as emotions, speaking styles, intention, attitude, emphasis, focus, and so on, we mainly refer to the speech synthesis techniques for emotions and speaking styles, which would be the most primary expressions in human speech communicatio...

Information retrieval systems tend to adopt very simple representations for the elements involved in the retrieval process. We believe that highly expressive formalisms can play a role in future retrieval systems, provided that they are complemented by successful and efficient indexing and retrieval techniques. In this work, we follow a bottomup approach in which starting from a very simplistic...

There is much current interest in supporting continuous queries on data streams using generalizations of database query languages, such as SQL. The research challenges faced by this approach include (i) overcoming the expressive power limitations of database languages on data stream applications, and (ii) providing query processing and optimization techniques for the data stream execution envir...

Expressive speech synthesis is one of the key technologies to achieve more advanced and natural human-computer interaction. A speech that is able to express various kinds of para-linguistic information that is emotions, speaking styles, intentions, emphasis, and attitudes is an expressive speech. Expressive speech synthesis concerns with synthesizing speech and adding various expressions relate...